Andrew DeHart’s Years in Tennessee, 1881-1884
A. J. Dehart’s travels in the decade after he left Cincinnati in 1877 fit a pattern for ambitious young African Americans during the Reconstruction era. Continue Reading
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A. J. DeHart as a Congregationalist Minister 1878-1884
We have been following the career of Andrew Johnson DeHart, an 1873 graduate of Cincinnati’s Gaines Colored High School, as he taught in the Colored Continue Reading
A. J. DeHart as a Young Teacher and Public Intellectual in Cincinnati 1873-1878
A. J. DeHart graduated from Cincinnati’s Gaines Colored High School in 1873. He went to work teaching in the “District” Colored elementary schools, one of Continue Reading
The Early Life and Education of A. J. DeHart: 1855 – 1873
In 1886, Andrew Johnson DeHart became principal of what was then called the Walnut Hills Colored School. He served until his death in 1909. Under Continue Reading
Construction During Reconstruction: Eden Park and the Reservoir
The building of Eden Park — the reservoir, roads, park amenities and landscaping — have a fascinating history! In this series of articles, you can Continue Reading
The Manse Hotel: a rambling prehistory of a rambling building
The one-time Manse Hotel building at 1004 Chapel Street, originally a cruciform (cross shaped) frame (wood) home constructed in about 1876, was the first house Continue Reading
The “Chinese Question” and Laundries in Cincinnati from the 1870s
This post about Chinese Laundrymen in Cincinnati a hundred and fifty years ago and the abuse they endured has suddenly become very topical. Hate crimes Continue Reading
Lane Seminary, Chinese Missionaries and Chinese Students during Reconstruction
Lane Theological Seminary on the east side Gilbert Avenue between Yale and Chapel was the first institution founded in Walnut Hills. It dated from about Continue Reading
Lincoln Avenue Sculptor: Louis Rebisso
Louis T. Rebisso lived on Lincoln Avenue in Walnut Hills for practically all this working life as a sculptor and as a teacher at the Continue Reading
Census 1870-1880, Long Haul Transportation Occupations: Steamboats
We saw in an earlier post that a number of African American men, and one woman, living on Lincoln Avenue in 1870, worked on steamboats. Continue Reading